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Mother Nature is a Keynesian (and other lefty fairy tales)
on March 17, 2011
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Jonathan Swift himself could not have written better satire than Nathan Gardels in his most recent HuffPo post: No one — least of all someone like myself who has experienced the existential terror of California’s regular tremors and knows the big one is coming here...
Wisconsin Recall Polling Analyzed
on March 16, 2011
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GUEST POST by Matthew Knee: Professor Jacobson asked me to comment on the DKos/PPP poll regarding big labor’s recall efforts in Wisconsin. The questions are mostly fine, but I have a few thoughts on the results that might be helpful. Wisconsin recalls do not work...
Me On The Mark Carbonaro Show Talking The Health Care Mandate
on March 08, 2011
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I appeared yesterday as a guest of Mark Carbonaro of KION 1460 in Monterey, California, to talk about the March 3, 2011 decision of Judge Roger Vinson in Florida granting a stay of his prior health care ruling which had held the health care mandate to be...
The Paranoid Style of Politics In Madison and The Left-Blogosphere
on March 03, 2011
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Ann Althouse has been observing the revolution in Madison (brought to you by PEU™) and correctly observes that the Wisconsin protesters are losing their grip on reality. It’s not just the protesters. The supporters of the Wisconsin protesters in the left-blogosphere also are losing their grip...
Executive Branch DOMA Power Grab
on February 23, 2011
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The decision by the the Department of Justice to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage Act is a massive power grab by the Executive Branch. The Justice Department is tasked with representing the “government” is the broad sense in legal matters coming before the...
Darrell Issa Meets The Democrats’ New Civility
on February 15, 2011
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The Democratic war room is back in action, and it is aimed at Darrell Issa, the California Republican Congressman who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. As reported by Politico, there is an almost unprecedented effort by Democrats to undermine Issa not for anything...
If You Hate The Health Care Mandate, How Can You Love Federal Tort Reform?
on February 13, 2011
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Medical malpractice tort reform is one of those supposed remedies frequently mentioned as a cure to lowering health care costs. Currently being debated is H.R. 5 (most recent mark up here) which would create a federal medical malpractice reform modeled on what has taken place...
Jennifer Rubin Discovers Think Progress Played The Race Card
on January 17, 2011
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Jennifer Rubin, formerly of Commentary and now blogging at The Washington Post, has discovered that Think Progress played the race card against the Koch brothers, who back libertarian and conservative causes, by claiming that the Koch brothers “are simply fulfilling their father’s legacy” in opposing integration....
Obama Renominates Four Controversial Judicial Nominees
on January 06, 2011
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One of the deals worked out in the lame duck session was the confirmation of 19 judicial nominees without action on four controversial nominees, including Goodwin Liu and John J. “Jack” McConnell. As reported by AP (h/t Senatus): President Barack Obama on Wednesday resubmitted a batch...
Legal Insurrection’s Official Predictions for 2011
on December 29, 2010
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Here are Legal Insurrection’s Official predictions for 2011: Obama will give an unscripted speech announcing he is resigning to take a year-long road trip to play golf in each of the 57 states. Joe Biden, the second in line to the presidency, will become President upon Obama’s resignation,...
Rare Good News
on December 27, 2010
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I have posted multiple times before about how worldwide “green” technology and a variety of high tech industries were dependent on “rare earth minerals” mined almost exclusively in China. U.S. production was shut down almost a decade ago over environmental concerns. Among other things, the...
Puff Piece, With an Odor of PDS
on December 24, 2010
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Someone please point me to a piece as puffy and fluffy as the one Ben Smith just wrote about Kamala Harris, the new Democratic Attorney General of California: It’s easy to understand why Kamala Harris, California’s next attorney general, is being called the future of...
It Also Was Called The Soviet Union
on December 16, 2010
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I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries. I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside, which was not permitted...
Saturday Night Card Game (It’s Just Chocolate Frosting, You Idiots)
on December 11, 2010
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This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: I admit it, the title of this post is somewhat intemperate. But I can’t take it anymore. Nothing is safe from the insanity that is the race card...
SPLC Demonizes Supporters of Traditional Marriage
on November 23, 2010
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I cannot begin to tell you how much it sickens me that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group I supported many years ago because of its work against the Klan, has become a key player in labeling legitimate conservative political and religious groups as “hate groups.” I...
Dems Keep The Team Together – Elect Pelosi Minority Leader
on November 17, 2010
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This is good news beyond belief. The faces of 2010 will be the faces of 2012. Via CBS News: Nancy Pelosi has been elected to lead House Democrats in the new Congress despite presiding over the loss of more than 60 House seats in the...
